christina angeli 🌺

I was asked by The Freeman Newspaper on what motherhood has taught me and this was my answer which was posted in their Facebook  page.  :) "For years, during Mother's Day, I always prayed that the next year I'd finally get to be greeted, 'Happy Mother's Day!.' For years, I cried. And the all knowing answered my relentless prayers. I was blessed with Trystyn last July 2017 . What has the almost three years of being a mom taught me? It taught me about selfless love. I’ve given up so many things for Trystyn: My body (oh, you should see my flabs and my stripes), my space (I can’t even do Number two in peace), my time (oh how I miss going out until the wee hours of the morning), sleep (28 months of breastfeeding did not allow me to sleep straight throughout the night). I may have lost some parts of my former life but I’d put my son’s welfare and needs over my own. Before composing my answer to the question, 'What has motherhood taught you?,' my son decided t...

  deserve to wear red lippies and post a shameless selfie (unfiltered at that) for self love on mother's day! -for motherhood is not easy and my road to it took a lot of crying and trying. -my pregnancy was not easy and required countless ultrasounds (more or less 15 utz) and months of bedrest and a lot of medicines -my delivery (less than 36 weeks) was induced and painful and expensive even via Normal delivery ( ) -i had bladder atony which was more painful than my labor and which required me to use a catheter for 3 weeks -i had to work at 6 weeks postpartum with no house help and that meant being home by 5pm to take over from the lola, wash & sterilize bottles and pump parts -for continuing to work on my cases when the bub is asleep -for pumping everywhere just to ensure Trystyn is breastmilk fed (and the pressure and blues that came with it) -for i had ugly and unattractive days -for there were tiring and exhausting and overwhelming days -coz losing weight was hard AF -for...